Craig Huff wrote:
> William,
>> Currently I have everything on one HD with /video on a separate LVM'd partition.
>> My results for running hdparm -tT three times each against the root partition and the
> partition /video is mounted on resulted in 60MB/s +/- 1MB/s, so not much different than
> your results.
>> I strongly suspect the 0.10.1 version of ivtv is the most likely culprit at this point. I hope
> to upgrade all the related pieces in the next day or two and try again. It mainly depends on
> A) time to do the work ;-) and B) What Axel has ready to use in atrpms since I use so many
> interlocking pieces.
>> Still, it sounds like I'll want to pursue changes to improve my disk I/O throughput soon, even
> if the ivtv fix improves things.
>> Craig.
>Craig,
My symptoms with the ivtv driver came from the infamous dma errors.
Once you start getting those, you start getting clock drift. And once
my clock started drifting, all kinds of bad things would happen (not the
least of which, missed schedules).
If your getting any kind of errors in messages from ivtv about dma
errors, pursue the ivtv issue, as at *lot* of things improved for me
with the newer driver. It even, for a brief time, fixed FF/RW!
Brian